Posts tagged with "third person shooter"

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is a game that in no way resembles XCOM: Enemy Unknown, yet is so afraid of that fact that it clings desperately to the game’s name and select pieces of its lore. It’s constantly straddling being an XCOM game and trying to be something different, ultimately wasting any potential it had to excel at either approach. Every part of this game’s design screams indecision, a reluctance to alienate XCOM fans...

SyFy’s new show Defiance will start airing in April 2013. So far it looks to be a fantastic show with a beautiful blend of survival, character profile development and big flashy battles. Who doesn’t like big flashy battles? Set during the aftermath of an interspecies war held on Earth, aliens and mankind have come to co-exist to survive on the war torn planet. With no main body of government, frontier cities such as Defiance are the closest thing...

Coming out in Febuary 2013, Aliens: Colonial Marines is one of the most anticipated third person shooters on the horizon. I was able to sit down with a group of fellow gamers to play through one of the game’s multiplayer deathmatch modes. We were the marines, the developers were the Aliens and the battle was on.
While the Aliens were fast moving, agile and able to run on the walls and ceilings with ease, as the marines we started off as sitting...

When someone discusses Lord of the Rings, you no longer think of just some rather old books. There are games, movies, literature, spin-offs and plenty of cosplay. Tolkein’s books are no longer a title, but an entire universe, much in the same way we see Marvel nowadays, with the various characters in their own games, movies and of course comics.
That’s what Defiance is about to become, not just a game, nor a TV series but a fully interactive...